EP2000001A2 - Verfahren und anordnung für einen decoder für mehrkanal-surroundton - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to decoding of a multi-channel surround audio bit stream.
- the present invention relates to a method and arrangement that uses spatial covariance matrix extrapolation for signal decoding.
- the next field where this technology will be used includes mobile wireless units or terminals, in particular small units such as cellular phones, mp3- players (including similar music players) and PDAs ⁇ Personal Digital assistants).
- mobile wireless units or terminals in particular small units such as cellular phones, mp3- players (including similar music players) and PDAs ⁇ Personal Digital assistants).
- mp3- players including similar music players
- PDAs Personal Digital assistants
- the available bit-rate is in many cases low especially in wireless mobile channels.
- the processing power of the mobile terminal is rather limited.
- Small mobile terminals generally have only two micro speakers and earplugs or headphones.
- a surround sound solution on a mobile terminal has to use a much lower bit-rate than for example the 384 kbits /sec that is used in the Dolby Digital 5.1 system. Due to the limited processing power, the decoders of the mobile terminals must be computationally optimized and due to the speaker configuration of the mobile terminal the surround sound must be delivered through the earplugs or headphones.
- a standard way of delivering multi-channel surround sound through headphones or earplugs is to perform a 3D audio or binaural rendering of the multichannel surround sound.
- each incoming monophonic signal is filtered through a set of filters that model the transformations created by the human head, torso and ears.
- These filters are called head related filters (HRF) having head related transfer functions (HRTFs) and if appropriately designed, they give a good 3D audio scene perception.
- HRF head related filters
- HRTFs head related transfer functions
- the diagram of figure 1 illustrates a method of complete 3D audio rendering of a multichannel 5.1 audio signal.
- the six multi-channel signals are:
- the SR signal is input to filters Hf and E C B
- the R signal is input to filters Hf and H£
- the C and LFE signals are jointly input to filter H c
- the L signal is input to filters Hf and H C F
- the SL signal is input to filters Hf , H% .
- the signals output from the filters Hf , Hc , H C , Hf and H C F are summed in a right summing element IR to give a signal intended to be provided to the right headphone, not shown.
- the signals output from the filters Hf , H C B , H c , Hf and H£ are summed in a left summing element IL to give a signal intended to be provided to the left headphone, not shown.
- a symmetric head is assumed. therefore the filters for the left ear and the right ear are assumed to be similar.
- the quality in terms of 3D perception of such rendering depends on how closely the HRFs model or represent the listener's own head related filtering when she/he is listening. Hence, it may be advantageous if the HRFs can be adapted and personalized for each listener if a good or very good quality is desired.
- This adaptation and personalization step may include modeling, measurement and in general a user dependent tuning in order to refine the quality of the perceived 3D audio scene.
- the parametric surround encoder 3 also referred to as a multi-channel parametric surround encoder, receives a multi-channel audio signal comprising the individual signals A;,(n)to ⁇ (M) , where JV is the number of input channels.
- the encoder 3 then forms in down-mixing unit 5 a down- mixed signal comprising the individual down-mixed signals z,( «) toz w (n) .
- the number of down mixed channels M ⁇ N is dependent upon the desired bit-rate, quality and the availability of an M-channel audio encoder 7.
- the down-mixed signal typically a stereo signal but it could also be a mono signal
- the parametric surround encoder also comprises a spatial parameter estimation unit 9 that from the input signals X 1 ( ⁇ ) to x N (n) computes the spatial cues or spatial parameters such as inter-channel level differences, time differences and coherence.
- the compressed audio signal which is output from the M-channel audio encoder (main signal ⁇ is, together with the spatial parameters that constitute side information transmitted to the receiving side that in the case considered here typically is a mobile terminal.
- a parametric surround decoder 13 includes an M- channel audio decoder 15.
- the audio decoder 15 produces signals z f (n)to z M (n) that the coded version of Z 1 ( ⁇ ) to z M ( ⁇ ) . These are together with the spatial parameters input to a spatial synthesis unit 17 that produces output signals X x (n) to x N (n) . Because the decoding process is parametric in nature, the decoded signals X 1 (H) to x N (n) are not necessarily objectively close to the original multichannel signals X 1 (H) to x N ( ⁇ ) but are subjectively a faithful reproduction of the multichannel audio scene.
- such a surround encoding process is independent of the compression algorithm used in the units encoder 7 (core encoder) and the audio decoder 15 (core decoder) in figure 2.
- the core encoding process can use any of a number of high performance compression algorithms such as AMR-WB + (extended adaptive rnultirate wide band), MPEG-I Layer III (Moving Picture Experts Group), MPEG-4 AAC or MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC, and it could even use PCM (Pulse Code Modulation).
- the above operations are done in the transformed signal domain, such as Fourier transform and in general on some time-frequency decomposition. This is especially beneficial if the spatial parameter estimation and synthesis in the units 9 and 17 use the same type of transform as that used in the audio encoder 7.
- FIG. 3 is a detailed block diagram of an efficient parametric audio encoder.
- the iV-channel discrete time input signal denoted in vector form as x N (n)
- x N (n) is first transformed to the frequency domain in a transform unit 21 that gives a signal x N (k,m)
- the index Jc is the index of the transform coefficients, or frequency sub-bands.
- the index m. represents the decimated time domain index that is also related to the input signal possibly through overlapped frames.
- the signal is thereafter down-mixed in a down-mixing unit 5 to generate the M-channel down mix signal z M (k,m) , where M ⁇ JV.
- a sequence of spatial model parameter vectors p N (k,m) is estimated in an estimation unit 9. This can be either done in an open-loop or closed loop fashion.
- the spatial parameters consist of psycho -acoustical cues that are representative of the surround sound sensation. For instance, these parameters consist of inter-channel level differences (ILD), time differences (ITD) and coherence (IC) to capture the spatial image of a multi-channel audio signal relative to a transmitted down-mixed signal x M (k,m) (or if in closed loop, the decoded signal z M (k,m)).
- ILD inter-channel level differences
- ITD time differences
- IC coherence
- the cues p N (k, m) can be encoded in a very compact form such as in a spatial parameter quantization unit 23 producing the signal p N (k,m) followed by a spatial parameter encoder 25.
- the M-channel audio encoder 7 produces the main bit stream which in a multiplexer 27 is multiplexed with the spatial side information produced by the parameter encoder. From the multiplexer the multiplexed signal is transmitted to a demultiplexer 29 on the receiving side in which the side information and the main bit stream are recovered as seen in the block diagram of figure 4.
- the main bit stream is decoded to synthesize a high quality multichannel representation using the received spatial parameters.
- the main bit stream is first decoded in an M -channel audio decoder 31 from which the decoded signals z M (k,m) are input to the spatial synthesis unit 17.
- the spatial side information holding the spatial parameters is extracted by the demultiplexer 29 and provided to a spatial parameter decoder 33 that produces the decoded parameters p N (k,m) and transmits them to the synthesis unit 17.
- the spatial synthesis unit produces the signal x N (k, m) , that is provided to the signal Frequency-to-time transform unit 35 to produce the signal x N (k,t ⁇ ) , i.e. the multichannel decoded signal.
- a personalized 3D audio rendering of a multi-channel surround sound can be delivered to a mobile terminal user by using an efficient parametric surround decoder to first obtain the multiple surround sound channels, using for instance the multi-channel decoder described above with reference to Fig. 4. Thereupon, the system illustrated in Fig. 1 is used to synthesize a binaural 3D -audio rendered multichannel signal. This operation is shown in the schematic of Fig. 5.
- 3D audio rendering is multiple and include gamming, mobile TV shows, using standards such as 3GPP MBMS or DVB-H, listening to music concerts, watching movies and in general multimedia services, which contain a multi-channel audio component.
- the second disadvantage consists of the temporary memory that is needed in order to store the intermediate decoded channels. They are in fact buffered since they are needed in the second stage of 3D rendering.
- one of the main disadvantages is that the quality of such 3D audio rendering can be very limited due to the fact that inter-channel correlations may be canceled.
- the inter-channel correlations are essential due to the way parametric multi-channel coding synthesizes the signals.
- the correlations (ICC) and channel level differences (CLD) are estimated only between pairs of channels.
- the ICC- and the CLD -parameters are encoded and transmitted to the decoder.
- the received parameters are used in a synthesis tree as depicted in figure 7 for one 5-1-5 configuration (in this case the 5-l-5 ⁇ configuration).
- Figure 6 illustrates surround system configuration having 5-l-5i parameterization. From figure 6 it can be seen that CLD and ICC parameters in the 5-1 -5i configuration are estimated only between pairs of channels.
- pairs of channels which belong to different loudspeaker groupings.
- the pairs of channels are the ones which belong to different third-level tree boxes (OTT3, OTT4 OTT2) in the 5"l-5i configuration. This may not be a problem when listening in a loudspeaker environment; however it becomes a problem if the channels are combined together, as in 3D rendering, leading to possible unwanted channel cancellation or over- amplification.
- the object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages in parametric multichannel decoders related to possible unwanted cancellation and/or amplification of certain channels. That is achieved by rendering arbitrary linear combinations of the decoded multichannel signals by extrapolating a partially known covariance to a complete covariance matrix of all the channels and synthesizing based on the extrapolated covariance an estimate of the arbitrary linear combinations.
- a method for synthesizing an arbitrary predetermined linear combination of a multi- channel surround audio signal comprises the steps of receiving a description H of the arbitrary predetermined linear combination, receiving a decoded downmix signal of the multi-channel surround audio signal, receiving spatial parameters comprising correlations and channel level differences of the multi-channel audio signal, obtaining a partially known spatial covariance based on the received spatial parameters comprising correlations and channel level differences of the multi-channel audio signal, extrapolating the partially known spatial covariance to obtain a complete spatial covariance, forming according to a fidelity criterion an estimate of said arbitrary predetermined linear combination of the multi-channel surround audio signal based at least on the extrapolated complete spatial covariance, the received decoded downmix signal and the said description of the arbitrary predetermined linear combination, and synthesizing said arbitrary predetermined linear combination of a multi-channel surround audio signal based on said estimate of the arbitrary predetermined linear combination of the multichannel surround audio signal
- an arrangement for synthesizing an arbitrary predetermined linear combination of a multi-channel surround audio signal comprises a correlator for obtaining a partially known spatial covariance based on received spatial parameters comprising correlations and channel level differences of the multi-channel audio signal, an extrapolator for extrapolating the partially known spatial covariance to obtain a complete spatial covariance , an estimator for forming according to a fidelity criterion an estimate of said arbitrary predetermined linear combination of the multi-channel surround audio signal based at least on the extrapolated complete spatial covariance , a received decoded downmix signal m and a description of the coefficients giving the arbitrary predetermined linear combination, and a synthesizer for synthesizing said arbitrary predetermined linear combination of a multi -channel surround audio signal based on said estimate of the arbitrary predetermined linear combination of the multi-channel surround audio signal.
- the invention allows a simple and efficient way to render surround sound, which is encoded by parametric encoders on mobile devices.
- the advantage consists of a reduced complexity and increased quality than that which is obtained by using a 3D rendering directly on the multichannel signals.
- the invention allows arbitrary binaural decoding of multichannel surround sound.
- a further advantage is that the operations are performed in the frequency domain thus reducing the complexity of the system.
- a further advantage is that signal samples do not have to be buffered, since the output is directly obtained in a single decoding step.
- Pig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a possible 3D audio or binaural rendering of a 5.1 audio signal
- Fig. 2 is a high level description of the principles of a parametric multichannel coding and decoding system
- Fig. 3 is a detailed description of the parametric multi-channel audio encoder
- Fig. 4 is a detailed description of the parametric multi-channel audio decoder
- Fig. 5 is 3D -audio rendering of decoded multi-channel signal
- Fig. 6 is a parameterization view of the spatial audio processing for the 5- l-5i configuration.
- Fig. 7 is a tree structure view of the spatial audio processing for the 5-1-51 configuration.
- Fig. 8 illustrates the relation between subbands k and hybrid subbands m and the relation between the time-slots n and the down-sampled time slot I
- Fig. 9a illustrates an OTT box showed in figure 7 and fig. 9b illustrates the corresponding R-OTT box.
- Fig. 10a illustrates the arrangement according to the present invention and fig. 10b illustrates an embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 11 is flowcharts illustrating the method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the basic concept of the present invention is to obtain a partially known spatial covariance of a multi-channel surround audio signal based on received spatial parameters and to extrapolate the obtained partially known spatial covariance to obtain a complete spatial covariance. Then, according to a fidelity criterion, a predetermined arbitrary linear combination of the multi-channel surround audio signal is estimated based at least on the extrapolated complete spatial covariance, a received decoded down mix signal tn and a description H of the predetermined arbitrary linear combination to be able to synthesize the predetermined linear combination of the multi-channel surround audio signal based on said estimation.
- the predetermined arbitrary linear combination of the multichannel surround audio signal can conceptually be a representation of a filtering of the multichannel signals, e.g. head related filtering and binaural rendering. It can also represent other sound effects such as reverberation.
- the present invention relates to a method for a decoder and an arrangement for a decoder.
- the arrangement is illustrated in figure 1Oa and comprises a correlator 902a, an extrapolator 902b, an estimator 903 and a synthesizer 904.
- the correlator 902a is configured to obtain a partially known spatial covariance matrix 911 based on received spatial parameters 901 comprising correlations ICC and channel level differences CLD of the multi-channel surround audio signal.
- the extrapolator 902b is configured to use a suitable extrapolation method to extrapolate the partially known spatial covariance matrix to obtain a complete spatial covariance matrix.
- the estimator 903 is configured to estimate according to a fidelity criterion a linear combination 913 of the multichannel surround audio signal by using the extrapolated complete spatial covariance matrix 912 in combination with a received decoded downmix signal and a matrix H k of coefficients representing a description of the predetermined arbitrary linear combination.
- the synthesizer 904 is configured to synthesize the linear combination 914 of the multi-channel surround audio signal based on said estimation 913 of the linear combination of the multi-channel surround audio signal.
- the 5-l-5i MPEG surround configuration is considered, as depicted in figure 7.
- the configuration comprises a plurality of connected OTT (one-to-two) boxes.
- Side information such as res and of spatial parameters referred to as channel level differences (CLD) and correlations (ICC) are input to the OTT boxes,
- m is a downmix signal of the multichannel signal.
- Synthesis of the multi-channel signals is done in the hybrid frequency domain. This frequency division is non linear which strives to a certain extent to mimic the time -frequency analysis of the human ear.
- every hybrid sub-band is indexed by k
- every time- slot is indexed by the index n .
- the MPEG surround spatial parameters are defined only on a down- sampled time slot called the parameter time-slot I , and on a down- sampled hybrid frequency domain called the processing band m .
- the relations between the n and I and between the m and k are illustrated by figure 8.
- the frequency band mO comprises the frequency bands kl and kl
- the frequency band ml comprises the frequency bands k.2 and k3.
- the time slots I is a downsampled version of the time slots n.
- the CLD and ICC parameters are therefore valid for that parameter tirne- slot and processing band. All processing parameters are calculated for every processing band and subsequently mapped to every hybrid band. Thereafter, these are interpolated from the parameter time-slot to every time-slot n .
- the OTT boxes of the decoder depicted in figure 7 can be visualized as shown in figure 9a.
- the output for an arbitrary OTT box strives to restore the correlation between the two original channels y ⁇ 1* and y[ m into the two estimated channels y ⁇ m and y[' m .
- the encoder comprises R-OTT boxes that are reversed OTT boxes as illustrated in figure 9b.
- the R-OTT boxes convert a stereo signal into a mono signal in combination with parameter extraction which represents the spatial cues between the respective input signals.
- Input signals to each of these R-OTT boxes are the original channels y ⁇ l m and .
- Each R-OTT box computes the ratio of the powers of corresponding time /frequency tiles of the input signals (which will be denoted 'Channel Level Difference', or CLD), that is given by:
- the R-OTT box generates a mono signal which writes as
- the correlations (ICC) as well as the channel level differences (CLD) between any two channels that are input to an R-OTT box is quantized encoded and transmitted to the decoder.
- This embodiment of the invention uses the CLD and the ICC corresponding to each (R)-OTT box in order to build the spatial covariance matrix, however other measures of the correlation and the channel level differences may also be used.
- each output channels of an OTT box (which is input to an R-OTT box) can be shown to have a covariance matrix as
- ⁇ OTT ⁇ denotes the energy of the input of the OTT x (or alternatively the output of the R - OTT x ) box
- the second term on the right-hand side of the equation is shown in order to simplify the notations.
- the spatial covariance matrix in the case of the 5-l-5i MPEG surround can be written with block matrices and the matrix is partially unknown which is shown below:
- OTT 3 and OTT 4 are related to each other and are represented by the covariance matrix C 0n . . It is easy in this case to relate both energies, i.e. ⁇ ⁇ and ⁇ o 2 ⁇ Ts as follows,
- This embodiment of the present invention extrapolates the missing correlation quantities while maintaining the correlation sum constraint. It should be noted that extrapolation of such a matrix must also be such that the resulting extrapolated matrix is symmetric and positive definite. This is in fact a requirement for any matrix to be admissible as a covariance matrix.
- the Maximum-Entropy principle is used as extrapolation method. This leads to an easy implementation and has shown quite good performance in terms of audio quality.
- the extrapolated correlation quantities are chosen such that they maximize the determinant of the covariance matrix, i.e.
- the matrix H k denotes a matrix of coefficients representing a description of predetermined arbitrary linear combination and a n ' k
- the desired linear combination i.e. desired output signal.
- the prior art direct technique would directly compute ⁇ n ' k as a simple linear combination of the output of the decoder, i.e. to apply the matrix H k in the frequency domain to the decoded channels lf k - R ,rf k ' ⁇ c k> ",lfe k ' ⁇ s k ' ⁇ rs k ' n , formally this would write as
- each R-OTT box leads to a linear combination.
- the downmix signal is in fact a linear combination of all channels.
- the downmix signal denoted m kt " can therefore be written as :
- the W ' matrix of coefficients is known and is dependent only on the received CLDx parameters, ⁇ n the case of a single channel downmix, i.e. the downmix signal consists of a mono only signal, then the matrix W n,k
- a linear estimate of the channels a"' k can be formed as :
- a"' k Q n ' k m n ' k , where Q"' k is a matrix which needs to be optimized such as when it is applied to the downmix channels, in this case the mono channel m"' k , it should provide a result as close as the one obtained with the original linear combination, a"' k .
- the matrix C"' k denotes the covariance matrix of the channels, i.e.
- the covariance matrix C'' m is known only relatively to the energy of the mono downmix signal, i.e. ⁇ o 2 ⁇ rij ⁇ l,m) .
- Q !>m depends only on know quantities which are available in the decoder.
- H' is an external input, a matrix, describing the desired linear combination, while C / ra and W 1 ' 1 " are derived from the spatial parameters contained in the received bit stream.
- the least squares estimate inherently introduces a loss in energy that can have negative effects on the quality of the synthesized channels.
- the loss of energy is due to the mismatch between the model when applied to the decoded signal and the real signal.
- this is called the noise subspace.
- this term is called the diffuse sound field, i.e. the part of the multichannel signal which is uncorrelated or diffuse.
- a number of decorrelated signals are used in order to fill the noise subspace and diffuse sound part and therefore to get an estimated signal which is psycho- acoustically similar to the wanted signal.
- the energy of the desired signal can be expressed as:
- a " ⁇ which has the same psycho- acoustical characteristics as the desired signal a"' k an error signal independent from ⁇ "' k is generated.
- the error signal must have a covariance matrix which is close to that of the true error signal and it also has to be uncorrelated from the mean squares estimate ⁇ "' k .
- the decorrelators have also to have a covariance matrix which is relatively defined to that of the mono downmix energy.
- the matrix is obtained by interpolating the matrix in the time domain (i.e. from / to n ) and by mapping the sub-band parameter bands to the hybrid bands (i.e. from m to k).
- Figure 10b summarizes and illustrates the arrangement used in order to synthesize arbitrary channels according to an embodiment of the present invention described above.
- the reference signs correspond to the reference signs of figure 10a.
- the estimator 903 comprises a further unit 907 configured to multiply Q"' k with the downmix signal to obtain the estimate 913 of the linear combination of a multi-channel surround audio signal.
- the estimator 913 further comprises a unit 905 adapted to determine a decorrelated signal shaping matrix Z"' k indicative of the amount of decorrelated signals.
- the arrangement also comprises an interpolating and mapping unit 906.
- This unit can be configured to interpolate the matrix Q l ' m in the time domain and to map downsampled frequency bands m to hybrid bands k and to interpolate the matrix 2 Um in the time domain and to map downsampled frequency bands m to hybrid bands k .
- the extrapolator 902b may as stated above use the Maximum-Entropy principle by selecting extrapolated correlation quantities such that they maximize the determinant of the covariance matrix under a predetermined constraint.
- FIG 11 showing a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.
- the method comprises the steps of:
- Receive spatial parameters comprising correlations and channel level differences of the multi-channel audio signal.
- Step 1005 may comprise the further steps of:
- the method may be implemented in a decoder of a mobile terminal.
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